Rest day in St. Francisville

The Butler Greenwood B&B is located on a plantation established in the 1790’s, which has been continuously occuppied by eight generations of the same family.

The live oaks that line the drive were planted from acorns by the original settlers. The current occupant, Ann Butler, is a prolific author and local historian. She gave us a private tour of the main house this morning. The period detail has been carefully preserved.  The furnishings were complete by the Victorian era, and haven’t been changed since then. The public areas are a museum, and it is open to the public for tours.

After the tour, it was time for bike maintenance. Since we rode in the rain yesterday, it was particularly important to lube our chains.

All that bike maintenance made us hungry, so we hopped on our bikes and headed down into St. Francisville to have boiled crawfish for lunch.

Here is Mary Jo contemplating her lunch.

Her crawfish-shelling technique was lacking, so she received a quick lesson from a woman who happened to be at the next booth. (Her charge for the lesson was one crawfish.)

We were not interested in having a Margarita or a Daquiri for lunch, but if we had been, we could have been fixed right up.

After lunch we took a walk in the historic district.

And I checked out the library.

We came “home” early, to enjoy the late afternoon on our porches. Tomorrow we are back on the roads, with an 87 mile ride to Hammond.